Dell OptiPlex 745 reboot problem -- BIOS update went poorly
Jonathan Underwood
jonathan.underwood at gmail.com
Sat Sep 6 10:13:49 UTC 2008
2008/9/5 Johnathan Hegge <johnathan.hegge at bluecoat.com>:
>
> Ugh, I was having the same problem with my 745. So, I drug out a USB
> floppy and applied the latest BIOS -- going from 2.3.1 to 2.6.2 from
> Dell. Whoops.
>
> Starting up looks fine, all services showed OK. Gets to local, X starts
> and the box freezes at the spinning dots with a frozen mouse. Can't
> break with Ctrl-Alt-Del or Ctrl-Backspace.
>
I have a couple of the optiplex 745 line running Fedora (from about 6
upwards to 9 currently) and have upgraded the bios from
2.3.1->2.4.1->2.6.2. At no point did I see the problems you're having.
Makes me suspect you have a hardware fault somewhere - have you tried
running memtest overnight?
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